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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Author: Antonio Porchia
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Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
Author: Arnold Bennett
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We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
Author: Athol Fugard
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Love is a hole in the heart.
Author: Ben Hecht
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Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay.
Author: Bill Stern
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
Author: Charles Lamb
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In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, or any other great work of art.
Author: Edward O. Wilson
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Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check.
Author: Escher
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The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.
Author: Gamel Abdel Nasser
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Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
Author: Gene Wolfe
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What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
Author: Havelock Ellis
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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
Author: J. K. Galbraith
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It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. - The Oracle.
Author: Baltasar Gracian
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Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that. - Selected Essays.
Author: D. H. Lawrence
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I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. - My Summer in a Garden.
Author: Charles Dudley Warner
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Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward. - "Mr. Dooley's Opinions", 1900.
Author: Finley Peter Dunne
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The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. - Unkempt Thoughts, 1962.
Author: Stanislaw Lec
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The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Author: John Powell
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. - From a College Window.
Author: A. C. Benson
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The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. - The House of Gold.
Author: Bede Jarrett
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All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own. - Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters.
Author: Oscar W. Firkins
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Author: Baruch Spinoza
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To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. - Reflections on Life.
Author: Alexis Carrel
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A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain—then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
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It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
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In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
Author: Charles Buxton
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
Author: Archibishop Of Canterbury
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You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
Author: Norman Douglas
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Author: Walter Benjamin
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But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?.
Author: Thomas Hood
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There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
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Never be so brief as to become obscure.
Author: Tryon Edwards
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In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.
Author: J. A. Dever
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Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
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Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.
Author: Edwin H. Land
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Laughter is inner jogging.
Author: Laughter
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Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
Author: John Berger
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We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
Author: Jeff Arder
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One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.
Author: George Fordyce
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Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected there, but only made use of. We will have such-a-one, for he sings prettily; we will invite such-a-one to a ball, for he dances well; we will have such-a-one at supper, for he is always joking and laughing; we will ask another because he plays deep at all games, or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and exclude all ideas of esteem and regard. Whoever is had (as it is called) in company for the sake of any one thing singly, is singly that thing, and will never be considered in any other light; consequently never respected, let his merits be what they will.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.
Author: Ben Jonson
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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
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She just wore enough for modesty; no more!
Author: Robert Buchanan
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He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
Author: George Herbert
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A theme is a memory aid, it helps you through the presentation just as it also provides the thread of continuity for your audience.
Author: Dave Carey
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Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
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Athletics should reduce stress, not increase it.
Author: Mark Allen
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